Life is punny.

Puns really light up my life. It's so hard to describe to someone exactly what a pun is. Its like wordy irony. Or something like that...here's the dictionary.com definition:

pun  [puhn] Show IPA noun, verb, punned, pun·ning.
–noun
1. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
2. the word or phrase used in this way.
 
Because that is so darn easy to understand, I've provided some examples taken from http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi-bin/disppuns.pl?cat=0&ord=F&page=1?=0 
These make me laugh. :) Enjoy.
 
1. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.

2. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

4. I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.

5. There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.

6. It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it.

7. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

8. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.

9. I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.

10. A rule of grammar: double negatives are a no-no.

You better start living right now.

I'm listening to Days Go By by Keith Urban, and I have to say, I'm feeling very much like the way he describes time in his song. Honestly, time really does fly. Wasn't it just yesterday when I was sitting in the auditorium for my middle school orientation? What happened to that bruise I got from flying off of my bike? Oh wait, I was ten then. Or even, since when did summer go by so fast? Wasn't the last day of school, like, last week? Time flies, even when it seems like molasses. ("Workdays pass just like molasses in wintertime, but it's July.") Really, I'm trying to focus on appreciating each and every day. I'm trying to learn something new each and every day. I'm trying to waste no time saying, "I'm bored." (Which I have said too many times.) I'm going to try new things, make new friends, and stand up for what I believe. It's time for me to be myself, and do things that I want to do if I have the oppurtunity. There will be no more, "It's too far away...My family would wonder where I was...I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow..." Be spontaneous. Just go. Don't think. Just go.

Carpe diem. Because life is beautiful, and there's not enough time.

pictures taken from:
http://www.wg3too.net/Scenic/1280x1024/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crepuscular_ray_sunset_from_telstra_tower_edit.jpg
http://www.ski-zermatt.com/mattnet/features/matterhorn_climb/photo11.htm

What happened to being lazy?

I am suddenly busy. And it is extremely uncharacteristic. I have soccer Mon-Fri 6-8:30 and taekwondo 2 days a week at 10:45 until about noon. I just applied to the VA hospital, school schedules came and everyone is flipping out, and school starts in 2 weeks and 6 days (but who's counting?). And when I'm home alone, I find that there is a stack of books waiting for me to be read and at least 3 Ghost Hunters recorded.

All in all, it's not too bad. For the first month and a half of summer, I really enjoyed doing absolutely nothing. And that absolutely nothing lasted just long enough so that now that I'm doing things again, I don't feel crowded or overwhelmed...but we'll see when school starts. My mindset will most likely change completely when Mr. What's-his-face assigns me to read 3 chapters and right a five paragraph essay. We'll talk again then.

Volunteering, Robyn style.

So today, I got an official call from an official volunteering office. I am sincerely bursting with energy. I can't even express it in words. All I can say is that I have to get a tuberculosis screening AND get my thumbprints taken! How wonderful can life get, really? So I'm generously giving my time to a Veteran's Hosptial and I really cannot wait to get started. I feel like it signifies a new chapter of my life...or perhaps I'm just excited that I have something productive and helpful to do. :) Life and all it's grand surprises. I wouldn't have it any other way.

So bring it on volunteering! Expose me to all your hardships and beauty. Fill me with happiness! :)

Seasonal thoughts...

Lately my brain has been pondering the oddity of seasons. Well, it's not odd, but rather...interesting. Really, what makes the weather so drastically change 4 times a year (depending on where you live, possibly less)?  So, if anyone else has had this question rattle their brain, here is the answer.

We now know that Earth orbits the sun elliptically and, at the same time, spins on an axis that is tilted relative to its plane of orbit. This means that different hemispheres are exposed to different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. Because the sun is our source of light, energy and heat, the changing intensity and concentration of its rays give rise to the seasons of winter, spring, summer and fall.
**taken from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077384/. Article written by Paige Williams.

Funky. Tchau friends.

I discovered Microsoft Photo Editor.

Have you ever picked up something you've owned all your life, but suddenly realized how much use it had? Like perhaps that old stand-up piano in the living room that you've never learned how to play, but oneday decide to test out. Or the food processor that your sister-in-law gave you as a Christmas present, when she knows how much you hate cooking. Or even when you go through the attic and find an old record player and a bicycle? New things are all around us. New things that we've owned for years. So look around you, and I promise that you will find hobbies you never new you had access to.

For example, I discovered Microsoft Photo Editor. I've had it on my computer for all the computer's life, and yet, I have never explored the capabilities it can do to enhance or change or edit pictures.

So really look around at what you own. Appreciate it, and use it. You'll be amazed.

Cedar Point, Roller Coaster Capital of the World.

So we're leaving very soon for Cedar Point.

So I get pretty excited.

I'll be there today and tomorrow.













So I'll see you in Sandusky.



**i do not claim these images as my own.